[Marxistindia] Memo to PM on West Bengal

[news from the cpi(m)]

                                                        December 4, 2009

Dr. Manmohan Singh

Hon’ble Prime Minister of India

New Delhi



Sub: Irresponsible and dangerous moves of the Railways Minister

Dear Prime Minister,


     1. You have called the ‘Maoists’ the greatest internal threat to
        the security of the country, and yet, the Railway minister has
        kept providing these elements with her full fledged support in
        the media and through her declarations and acts. She has also
        repeatedly called for the release of Chhatradhar Mahato, named
        accused in murder cases. The Railway minister is constantly
        demanding the withdrawal of Joint Forces from West Bengal, which
        will only facilitate the activities of the Maoists. Within hours
        of a landmine blast in West Midnapore on 27.11.2009 which killed
        two policemen, the Railway Minister denigrated the Joint
        Forces. 
        


     1. The said minister has claimed before the media inter alia that
        the violence being committed on and against the leaders and
        workers of the CPI(M) is not the handiwork of the CPI(Maoist)
        but a result of internecine feud. She has called for the arrest
        of the Bengal Chief Minister and in the same breath the release
        of Chhatradhar Mahato while repeatedly calling also for
        application of ART 355 and 356 in Bengal. The ‘Maoists’ receive
        a moral boost from her declarations and deeds And almost
        simultaneously the Maoist Leader Kishanji reciprocated by airing
        his loud suggestions that the present Railway Minister should be
        the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
        


     1. The annexed copies of the media reports would make it clear, the
        AITC and the CPI(Maoist), have long been engaged in
        destabilising the political situation of the state by means of
        assassination, mayhem, arson, committing crimes on women and
        generally seeking to create a situation where the democratic
        fabric of the state in put under great duress. The Maoist along
        with AITC activists are forcing people at gunpoint to join their
        rally and barricades.
        







     1. Annexure I A, B, and C provide a detailed list of the leaders
        and workers of the CPI(M) and Left Front assassinated by the
        Maoist and the people’s War Group (PWG) from 2001. The number of
        those killed from June 2006 itself is 326. The ‘Maoists’ and the
        AITC have also killed, scores of common men, women, children, as
        well as police and medical personnel.
        


     1. The AITC leadership is a close patron of the leadership of the
        People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), and its
        supremo Chhatradhar Mahato. Annexure II A, B, and C provide
        examples of this state-of-affairs from media reports. 
        


     1. Annexure III in the form of a CD contains photos that show the
        Railway Minister, Chhatradhar Mahato, and a section of the
        intelligentsia in confabulation in the area of Lalgarh, which
        has been a ‘Maoist’ stronghold. The PCAPA is nothing but a mass
        front of the CPI (Maoist) as reports in the media have
        repeatedly noted.
        


     1. We draw your attention to the recent declaration of the ‘Maoist’
        leader ‘Kishanji’ that since they have provided support to the
        AITC at Nandigram against the CPI(M), the AITC should come
        forward and help them at Lalgarh and adjacent areas.
        


     1. The most recent incident of the blockade of the Rajdhani Express
        exposes the AITC game plan further. Even as the blockade was
        going on and graffiti being painted on the sides of the bogies
        calling for the release of Chhatradhar Mahato who is presently
        in police custody, the railways minister blamed the ‘Marxists’,
        meaning the CPI(M) that has held the train up. To add insult to
        injury, a full 24 hours earlier to the blockade, an AITC central
        minister Shri Sisir Adhikari had claimed before the media that
        he ‘knew that the blockade would take place.’ The source of
        ‘knowledge’ of this minister may kindly be probed and the nation
        kept informed.
        


     1. At a time when the ‘Maoists’ have laid claim to the murder of an
        AITC worker Nishikanta Mondal at Nandigram on 22 September 2009,
        the Railway Minister keeps harping on the untruth that he was
        ‘killed by the CPI(M).’ On 29.11.2009, she has also said that
        she was privy to clues of the murder.
        




     1. We enclose as Annexure II A and B the English translation of
        what has appeared in the Bengali print media on the nexus
        between the AITC-PCAPA-‘Maoists’ and as Annexure IV we enclose
        the original reports in Bengali that has appeared in the Bengali
        print media.
        


     1. We urge upon you to take appropriate implicational notice of the
        developments.
        



Thanking you,

Yours sincerely, 




SITARAM YECHURY, BASUDEB ACHARIA, SHYAMAL CHAKRABORTY, 




PRABODH PANDA, MANOHAR TIRKI, BARUN MUKHERJEE